Best Practice to Organize Your Digital Photos 

Awesome! Thank you, Linda! Good luck with organizing.

Thanks for sharing, will consider it for future videos!

Thanks, Leila! Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much. Glad you found it helpful and good luck with your journey :)

Thank you very much. Glad you liked the video and hopefully, you could apply some of the best practices. All the best, Lea

Hi Thomas, good question. Either you use a software that will help you do that or you do it by going to a pictures properties via right click and then adding metadata on the Details tab by clicking on the respective row and adding it. Hope this helps :)

Good Tools = ExifManager, PhotoMove, YAPS

Thanks so much for sharing, Jay!

Great, thanks for sharing!

Glad you found it helpful! Well, you can always print out The Digital Architect and make yourself a small booklet :)

CCleanup is available for MAC? If not what do you suggest?

Glad you liked it!

Thanks, Denis! If you are satisfied with the way your photos are organized at the moment, no need to action. However, if you would like to further streamline them, maybe you can use a drive to collect and organized them all. Best of luck, Lea

Backup! Please see it like this ‚One Copy = No Copy = No Regret‘

Thanks and greetings back :)

@@LeaDavid Thanks! 😌 Would You kindly do a Video about how one can remember useful Keyboard Shortcuts? You obviously know Your Stuff and You could give good Advice how to do it efficiently.

@@LeaDavid Oh! Never mind, You already did a Video about that 😅 Thanks again!

Good luck, Gledson! :)

Great question. Maybe someone here to help?

Thanks for sharing! Really like this approach :)

why_those_underscores_? I think we don‘t need them anymore & i.m.o they feel very unnatural a modern OS can handle unicode and spaces as well. Regards Frank

@@frankmeier3042 Photography is just my hobby. Profession wise I am a ethical hacker. So I write code also and I know how those spaces cause problems while retrieving data from any SQL server. I have my own cloud storage also. It is becoming little more technical but for normal person with space will also work effectively.

You are welcome!

UltraFinder

Glad you like them, Petrus :)

Would have been great if you shared your approach 😀

@@LeaDavid "First, I have several hard drives with my image files, so if an error occurs on one disk, I still have multiple copies of the images. When the disk is replaced, I can quickly copy the files over to the new disk. The suggestion to delete copies doesn't work for me; those copies are there on purpose and are my safeguard to ensure that no images are lost." Next, all the images are organized into subdirectories by year, e.g., 2009, and under this, there are subdirectories from 2009.01.01 up to 2009.12.31. Additionally, on the same date, there can be multiple subdirectories, e.g., 2009.08.15 Birte's birthday, 2009.08.15 Ferry ride to Zealand. When a new year starts, a new subdirectory is created, e.g., 2024, and then a subdirectory for each date that has pictures, again categorized by events. All my pictures are tagged with keywords and descriptions, making them easy to find. For this, I use the software Zoner Photo X. Unfortunately, I can't upload pictures, otherwise I could illustrate what I mean. By the way, I have a lot of pictures, over 400,000 images amounting to about 8TB, so backup is an important thing for me

Wow you are so cool and wise… totally cool and wise.

Thanks, glad to hear that!

@@LeaDavidbut it is YOU LEA to teach it to all the others out there ❤🤩 Thank you

Thanks for sharing, but I do not think so. 1. Sure, feel free to use an external drive or a cloud storage. 2. Not everyone has access to such a software or would like to use one. But sure, if you can and would like to do so, it's a great option. 3. see 2. :)

Maid = a person Made = put together or built.

Prof. Photographers have for sure a different view on this topic … I can recommend any database solution if you backup that monster frequently - nobody want‘s to tag all the photo library twice after the database (or hdd) crashed. for home users the backup is (and will always be) the weak part of the chain.

Thanks for sharing!